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(No Model.)

0. KALKHOPF.

COMBINED TUBE CUTTER AND RATGHET DRILL.

No. 374,969, Patented Dec. 20, 1887.

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Attorney UNITED STATES PATENT Orricn.

OTTO KALKHOFF, OF OAEROLLTON, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR OF ONEHALF TO LEVEEETT XV. LOOMIS, GEORGE W. ROSS, AND CHARLES E. UNDERIVOOD,

ALL OF SAME PLACE.

COMBINED TUBE-CUTTER AND RATCHET-DRILL.

$PECIPICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,969, dated December 20, 1887. Application filed December 9, 1886. Serial No. 221,143. (No model.)

To ctZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, Orro KALKHOFF, a citizen of the United States, residing at Carrollton, in the county of Greene, State of Illinois,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in a Combined Tube-Cutter and Ratchet- Drill, of which the following is a specification,

reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

To This invention relates to a combined cutting and boring tool for the use of machinists and others; and it has for its objects to provide a tool which may be used at will as a cutter for cutting off the ends of boiler or other tubes, or

a drill-stock, as more fully hereinafter specified. These objects I attain by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 represents a side elevation of my tool complete, having a portion broken away to show the cutting mechanism; Fig. 2, an end view thereof, showing the socket for the reception of the drill or boring or other similar tool; Fig. 8, a side elevation of a sleeve to be em ployed when the device is used as a cuttingtool, and Fig. 4 an end view of said sleeve.

In the drawings, A indicates a hollow tube or mandrel, which is provided with a contracted shank, a, upon which is mounted, ad-

justably or otherwise, an annular gageplate, B, which is confined in position by set-screws when adjustable, and which may be formed with the mandrel when rigid therewith. To the said shank is secured a ratchet-wheel, G,

V and also a loosely-working lever, D, which is and is provided with a longitudinal slot,

through which projects the free end of a cut ter, F, which is fulcrumed within the mandrel at G, and is pressed normally inward by means ofa flat spring, H, against the conical end J of the advancing-screw which projects into the mandrel. The forward end of the mandrel is provided with a square socket, K, for the end ofa drill or other tool.

The letter L indicates a sleeve having a longitudinal slot, which corresponds with the slot in the mandrel, and which is adapted to set over the same, so as to fit it to the internal diameter of the tube to be cut and permitit to turn accurately therein. The longitudinal slot is closed at each end, so that it may be held in position in the tube operated upon by the end of the cutting-tool when the mandrel is inserted in vertical position into the upper end of a tube.

The ratchetlever and ratchet maybe dispensed with and an ordinary wrench used to rotate the tool, in which case a polygonal nut will take the place of the ratchet.

Vhen used as a cutting-tool, the mandrel, 7o with the sleeve set over it, is inserted in the tube, the advancing-screw turned so as to throw the cutting-edge of the cutter into contactvwith the interior of the tube, and the tool is rotated, the advancing-screw being set for- 7 5 ward from time to time to advance the cutter until the tube is cut through. When used as a boring-tool, the sleeve is left off and a drill is placed in the socket in the mandrel and the tool operated in the usual manner.

Having described my invention, what I claim 1s 1. In a combined tube-cutter and drill, the combination, with the hollow mandrel having an aperture in its forward end adapted to receive and hold a drill-tool, and having at its rear end a pointed advancing-screw, E, of a cutter mounted in the mandrel and adapted to be projected laterally therefrom, and an inclined or conical head upon said screw at its 0 forward end, whereby the cutter may be adan aperture for said cutter, the aperture being vanced laterally or the mandrel longitudiclosed at each end, substantially as set forth. 1o nally, substantially as set forth. In testimony whereof I affix my signature in 2. In a combined tube-cutter and drill, the presence of two witnesses.

combination, with the hollow mandrel and the OTTO KALKHOFF. cutter adapted to be laterally projected there from, of the removable sleeve L, adapted to closely fit the mandrel externally, and having \Vitnesses:

ED MINER, F. M. ROBERTS. 

